Oliver Closeoff {l Wrote}:The ACC must keep Clemson, VT, Miami and FSU at all costs. Once these teams go, we are screwed. Also, can't we trade NC state instead of Maryland? The ACC doesn't need four NC schools.
You can regain the DC market by bringing in USNA as a football only (if that is what you are so concerned about).
Again, MD isn't the problem. It's the dominos falling thereafter.
First thing... Swofford knows who wouldn't assign media rights (I assume it's FSU). He needs to sit down with them and ask what it would take to get such an assignment (including his own resignation). Get the media rights assigned before you do another thing. If you can only get it from 12... get it from the 12 or however many can be at least a core.
Second thing... work internally and find out if there is anything the 13 members are willing to budge on to get ND in. For instance, ask for 2 more games and they get full share in everything AND can keep a separate deal for whatever they do for the other 5 games.
Third thing... if ND is a non-starter, consider USNA for football-only... essentially someone who is splitting a full membership with ND. They can be in for academics, carry DC as well as MD, travel better than MD and have more national appeal.
But, knowing Swoffy, he'll do whatever ESPN wants (which means taking a bullshit property in UConn... which after they are added, ESPN will inform the ACC that they don't consider it equal value with MD and will have the contract cut accordingly... at which point 9903 will claim that there was nothing else Swofford could've done).